Fairies, Elves, Giants and Gnomes

If you visit my blog regularly you are probably getting tired of seeing my Iceland journal. I have another spread to show you today. The theme is those fantasy folk that many Icelanders (especially in the past) believed lived in the island's landscapes. In Icelandic they are called Huldufólk. 

The left side of my spread is a painted mountain with my abstract glacier coming down. I created the face in the rocks by painting a coat, then laying down a die cut, then adding more paint. Once the paint had started to dry I removed the die cut and what I got was this nice image. I added some black molding paste and sand to make the ground on the base, painted in the greens and yellow flowers, and then  after doodling and painting the little fairy homes on a separate sheet of paper, I cut them out and added them.

The left side is made with a Gelli print on deli paper, along with the addition of the Icelandic postage stamps and the elf/gnome cut from a playing card.

I suppose these guys are part of nature's wonders, especially if you think of them in a fantasy way, so I am linking up to Gill's fantastic themed challenge at Art Journal Journey.
And since it is Friday. let's party. Paint Party Friday that is.  Thank you Kristen and Eva for hosting every week.
(And stop by both challenges to see some great art too!)

Some of you may remember this photo I took.

These are fairy home I discovered when we stopped at this wonderful little church right next to the ocean. They were on a little knoll behind the church. I used them as my inspiration for the little fairy houses in my page.

We noticed this little church on our first day in Iceland. Can you see it in the photo below, way off on the right.

 We turned off and headed down towards it.

  And here it is close up, although I somehow managed to cut the top of the steeple out of my photo.

 A side view with some of the little cemetery and one of the pretty windows.

 Who knew dandelions in a field would be so pretty? 

 And we actually got to go inside of this church. Most of all the little churches were locked- and we saw a lot of them. They looked perfect up against the mountains and open fields. This church was very pretty inside.

So we had a pretty successful trip into Boston to meet with the kidney transplant team. (My husband needs a transplant.) It might be as early as October. My husband has a couple of other tests to get done, and I (as the donor) need to meet with my team in a few weeks. Keep your fingers crossed that all goes well in the next few weeks. :)

I'll be back early next week. I'm off for a couple of nights with the hubby along with his sister and her husband.

Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend everyone.